Now that HTML5 has finally made sectioning elements available, many of us greet them with great reluctance. Make no mistake: Sectioning elements help you improve document structure, and they’re in the spec’ to stay. Once and for all, Heydon Pickering will be exploring the problems these elements solve, the opportunities they offer and their important but misunderstood contribution to the semantic Web. Some people will tell you not to bother with sectioning. They say that it’s hard work or that it doesn’t make sense. This is hokum. Using sections demonstrably enhances HTML structure without breaking accessibility.
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The varying viewports that our websites encounter on a daily basis continue to demand more from responsive design. Not only must we continue to tackle the issues of content choreography — the art of maintaining order and context throughout the chaotic ebb and flow of the Web browser — but we must also meet the expectations of users.
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At Velocity 2011, Nicole Sullivan and I introduced CSS Lint, the first code-quality tool for CSS. We had spent the previous two weeks coding like crazy, trying to create an application that was both useful for end users and easy to modify. Neither of us had any experience launching an open-source project like this, and we learned a lot through the process.
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Vertical rhythm is clearly an important part of Web design, yet on the subject of baseline, our community seems divided and there is no consensus as to how it fits in — if at all — with our growing and evolving toolkit for designing online.
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JavaScript has been called everything from great to awful to the assembly language of the Web, but we all use it. Love JavaScript or hate it: everyone admits there are serious flaws and not many other choices.
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Although templates can be used to output any kind of text, in this article we provide examples using HTML, since that is what we want in client-side development. Let’s take a fresh look at client-side templating!
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In this tutorial, we will be covering a number of interesting topics, including: Magento layout handles, layout XML files, blocks and templates, and an alternative to Widgets.
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Even though we keep JavaScript, CSS and HTML in different files, the concepts behind progressive enhancement are getting all knotted up with every jQuery plugin we use and with every weird technique that crops up. In this post, Tim Wright offers a little perspective as to where we are and how we can realign our goals.
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There are a few reasons why our Web is on the chubby side, and most of them actually are possible for us as developers to change. Discover some of the main reasons why the Web is suffering from an obesity problem.
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There are many common pitfalls when it comes to writing memory-efficient and fast code. In this article we’re going to explore some test-proven approaches for writing code that performs better.
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